Axis2 - Rampart performance

[Rajan Gupta <Ra...@Yodlee.com>]

Hi,

   Is there any document about the performance benchmarks of Rampart
1.4?  I am using Rampart 1.4 with axis2 version 1.4.1 with full body
signing and encryption. The performance degrades a lot when we enabled
WSSE in our web services. Below is what we are seeing in our initial
benchmarking: 

 

 

                                      TPS      CPU Utilization

 

Without WSSE               7.1       75%

With WSSE                    32         50%

 

The server with WSSE gives one-fourth the TPS with 50% more CPU
utilization. 

 

I am trying to find if there is anyone else who has done similar
performance benchmarking of Rampart. 

 

Thanks in advance,

Rajan

 

Re: Axis2 - Rampart performance

[Dennis Sosnoski <dm...@sosnoski.com>]

Hi Rajan,

See http://www.ibm.com/developerworks/java/library/j-jws6/index.html

WS-Security overhead is very high, and you're best off limiting its use 
for high-volume web services to cases where it's really needed. And it's 
not just Axis2/Rampart that has this kind of overhead - the second next 
article in my series will be out around the end of the year, comparing 
Sun's Metro and WSIT WS-Security performance with Axis2 and Rampart.

Incidentally, I have a 2- or 3-day class on Web Services Security which 
covers options and tradeoffs, with the goal of educating architects and 
developers to understand how to configure and use both transport layer 
security (TLS AKA SSL) and WS-Security for their service. This class 
includes looks at performance issues. I haven't included the description 
for this class on my web site yet (updating the site always seems to be 
at the bottom of the stack...), but if anyone's interested contact me 
directly for details.

  - Dennis

-- 
Dennis M. Sosnoski
Java XML and Web Services
Axis2 Training and Consulting
http://www.sosnoski.com - http://www.sosnoski.co.nz
Seattle, WA +1-425-939-0576 - Wellington, NZ +64-4-298-6117



Rajan Gupta wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
>    Is there any document about the performance benchmarks of Rampart 
> 1.4?  I am using Rampart 1.4 with axis2 version 1.4.1 with full body 
> signing and encryption. The performance degrades a lot when we enabled 
> WSSE in our web services. Below is what we are seeing in our initial 
> benchmarking:
>
>  
>
>  
>
>                                       TPS      CPU Utilization
>
>  
>
> Without WSSE               7.1       75%
>
> With WSSE                    32         50%
>
>  
>
> The server with WSSE gives one-fourth the TPS with 50% more CPU 
> utilization.
>
>  
>
> I am trying to find if there is anyone else who has done similar 
> performance benchmarking of Rampart.
>
>  
>
> Thanks in advance,
>
> Rajan
>
>  
>